The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-08-07

v w his watch. hut for
JONI TAYLOR which the leaden
messenger Of death would have passed
through him near the heart. And yet he
lived % he 80 years old, lacking hut three
months. and during thirty years lived in
roace. wealth and local honor in I tab.
John Taylor was born Nov !, 1893, I'm
Muthorp. We,tm0rclaul county England,
where Doe wns reared Disenter and in early
life became q Methodist I'm i-2 he emf
grated % Canada, and was soon in tine midst
of that wonderful religions ferment which
swept over America. especially tbe western
sections. during that era. II was the age
of religion. dchates. ~ which the Rice
CmuheI and Campbell Purcell discus
si0ns. with many Others, are the permanent
remains I'm our literature Ohio was
the great battle ground If new scots, and
thence mi,,ionarie. went to Canada, hy one
OF whom TAYLOR was a so,oul time converted.
becoming radical Wesleyan or Prorrcsi,t
I'D 1886 hc hocame Mormon gathering With
tho saints" at Kirkland, o. in is3I About
that time. however, the Mormon bank broke,
the "Kmtiand Safety society money fell go
six cents ON the doll lar, and then ~ nothing
creditors seized the goods ~ The k'rtlani
store. indictments Issued against some Of the
saints FOR svniln- aud others for counter
faitinc. ana tho leader. hel 10 Missouri The
saints already numbered some 1900 in the
northwestern part ~ that state. var between
chem and She GcHt.e- broke out. and late iu
-, the whole Mormon population was oT-
pe'lci. with much cruelty. Iaey settled
about Nauyoo. boz Hancock county, llis., and
pr0,reroi greatly until 1928, when trouble
rran arose with the non Morm0u. All thIs
time TaylU was working hard for tha sect
and rising iu rank as well rs accumu.atins
,fopartv lie was now au apostle Gone of
The quorum ~ tvs lyc." 70, the phrase isl.
fn 1915 the doctrine If plural marriage
was quietly taught % the trusted ones, and
the leaIin. saints took unto themselyc, extra
wivc, Early the next year few men
,ocelel from tle church and established Ihn
Expo-itor. % newspaper iu Nauyoo, % oppose
the new doctrine, but they only issued one
number THE Prophet Joseph Smith
prompflv convened the city council. had the
paner declared q nuisance and, with Dbl, de
voted gang 40 once destroyed iho press,
scattered the typo and burned nil the copies
tioy could g.t The editors fed 20 Carthage
the county scat. and procured warrants for
tleuorhet and Hyrum $50 spelled hy Nor
mons. bis brother. the saints in turn torti-
fled Nnuvoo. and babe defiance - The county
officials. The governor Of Illinois persuaded
Them o. surrender ON a pledge Of protection.
but they were soon taken out Of bis hands on
n new charge that Of treason. Joseph and
i'm d.. II .rIl
iai treason not being bailable, and willard
Richards and John Taylor went with Them
for company On the afternoon of June e.
1914. "a mob stormed the Jail, killed both the
Smiths and shot Taylor with four balls
Three entered his body, two Of them remain
inc There for the rest Of his life, but The
fourth bali struck a heavy, old fashioned
ENGLISH watch be wore, stopping the bands at
5.lG %. m. which is marked among the saints
ais the "solemn hour Of the prophet death
Tavlor recovered after a long illness, and fed
with fbo saints when they we're driven from
lHmoi. in 1876 Tn 1870 Doe yielded lbs claims,
and Joined the Pratt, and others in making
Brigham Young president Of the church.
For the next ten years Taylor was mis-
.sunalv in vurious countries. Tie had the
Book Of Mormon translated into French,
and established I'Etoiln The Stan, Nor
mon puer. iu France ln common with
other missionaries. he bitterly denied the
charge that polygmy was Mormon prae-
tce I'm France Boz took solemn oath 20 that
effect. and at public debate with three Eng
h-h ministers he yehemently denied that "a
Mormon could have more than one wife,
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